[Trisquel-users] Re : New documentation: Connect to FreeNode IRC anonymously with tor

[magicbanana]

Since I have just read it and it is related, here is a link to a recent  
article in Washinton Post entitled "Privacy rights violated at least once by  
U.S. intelligence-collection initiative, official says". Here is how it ends:
In what he calls the “back door searches” loophole, Wyden says the  
government could gather large amounts of e-mails and phone call data, then  
sift through them to pinpoint the communications of individual Americans, an  
aide explained.

“This law clearly has had a bigger privacy impact than most people  
realize,’’ Wyden said Friday. “In particular, I believe that the  
“back door searches” loophole needs to be closed.”